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The hellraisers of Hoxton: Art, by Peter Carty, reviewed

The pretensions of the Young British Artists are lampooned in Carty’s debut novel – but there’s still something irresistible about the 1990s London it recreates

2 March 2024

9:00 AM

2 March 2024

9:00 AM

Art Peter Carty

Pegasus, pp.280, 10.99

Those one-time hellraisers the Young British Artists are today more likely to be found making noise complaints to the local council than sliding down the bannisters at the Groucho Club. But in his part-historical, part-satirical, part-autobiographical debut novel Art, Peter Carty returns to their heyday as he charts the birth of the movement that shook up the art world in the early 1990s.

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